Schott Musik

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

The work 'Huit Poésies de Mallarmé' is one of many lyrical settings by Wilhelm Killmayer. The focus is almost entirely on the vocal part, with long sustained notes, chords or motivic fragments in the...

Sopran und Klavier

Night-like sounds are explored in a variety of ways in the three parts of this wide-ranging scene. Ornamental and playful, the piano entwines with the singing voice in the first part. In the recitativ...

In 1998 Barbara Heller created this exceedingly poetic song cycle. Filled with calm serenity 'Come una colomba' is steeped in the beauty of nature, colour and light. The poems by the father of modern...

1942 proved to be the 'year of the song' for Hindemith. Within a few months he wrote 21 songs for his wife, Gertrud, a classically trained singer. Until now these songs have only been published in the...

With his opera 'The Dead Souls' (based on Gogol) and the ballets 'Anna Karenina' (based on Tolstoy), 'The Seagull' and 'Woman with a Little Dog' (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic w...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was reputed to be a poet of semantic ambiguity and, in the opinion of Guillou, therefore comes closest to the art of musical expression. Guillou has already 'translated' 'Peace'...